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Father John Misty appeared alongside 50 Cent on last night’s episode of Conan. Well, OK, not exactly alongside, but they did take a pretty sweet meme picture backstage (see above), and both of them were on at separate times doing interesting things. FJM performed the title track from his new album, I Love You, Honeybear… More »

Father John Misty’s excellent sophomore album I Love You, Honeybear is one of the year’s best, but touring behind this record hasn’t stopped Josh Tillman from writing his next. He told NME that the next album is done, and will build on the ideas and sentiments of “Bored In The USA” and “Holy Shit.” I… More »

We named Father John Misty’s cover of the Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” one of the 5 Best Songs of last week; it was a track Josh Tillman recorded in an East Vancouver leather shop back in May. More footage of the performance surfaced today, and you can now watch Tillman perform “Bored In The U.S.A.,”… More »

The week began on, like, Tuesday with the launch of Apple Music and it pretty much ended on Thursday because of the three-day weekend, and frankly, not a whole hell of a lot happened in between. It kinda felt like everyone besides Trent Reznor took the week off and nobody even bothered to release any… More »

Father John Misty debuted his great new cover of Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” earlier this week and, in a new interview with NME, he opened up about the inspiration behind choosing the song, and it turns out to have been for completely mundane, contractual reasons. Basically, his manager said he had to do a cover… More »

Father John Misty has been doing a lotofcovers lately, and he recently trotted out another one during a live acoustic session for the Canadian network CBC. Perhaps as a nod to his Canadian hosts, he covered Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs,” playing a lovely take of the song entirely solo and acoustic in what… More »

Madonna’s “Bitch, I’m Madonna” is a bad video. It might be a good video if Madonna wasn’t out here trying to compete with Taylor Swift’s “Badd Blood” in the guest-star department and failing hilariously. Swift got her guest stars to throw knives and kung fu fight. Madonna has higher-wattage celebrities, but she can’t get them… More »

The amount of great music in the past six months has been almost unfair. As in: How are we supposed to process all this? How can we fully appreciate one major piece of work when there’s always another one coming right around the corner. And when the huge, fully-formed masterpieces are dropping from the sky… More »

Father John Misty’s sophomore album I Love You, Honeybear is one of the best LPs we’ve heard this year, and his new video for the album’s title track is a heavy and bracing piece of work, one worthy of the album. Josh Tillman, Father John Misty’s alter-ego, co-wrote the video with his wife Emma Tillman,… More »

Sasquatch! Festival took place over the course of Memorial Day weekend at Quincy, Washinton’s Gorge Amphitheatre, featuring a diverse, stacked lineup including both musicians and comedians. Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant, Modest Mouse, Lana Del Rey, and Ryan Adams headlined the four-day weekend alongside a smattering of other exciting acts including Run The Jewels, Courtney Barnett,… More »

The last time Father John Misty was on a late-night show, he brought along canned laughter to announce the release of I Love You, Honeybear on Letterman. A lot has changed since then — Honeybear was well-received, and he’s in the middle of a sold out tour. This means he didn’t need to rely o… More »

As part of a new cover story for Time Out, Father John Misty took some time out of his day to give some terrible relationship advice, carrying on his over-the-top schtick as the most cynical straight white dude out there. When asked “My partner called me by a different name when we were having sex. More »

Last weekend, as Florence + The Machine were playing the Coachella main stage just before Drake’s headlining spot, Florence Welch broke her foot. If you were watching the show, you would’ve had no idea anything had happened; she still showed a ton of energy. Last night, Welch played the second Coachella weekend, and she seemed… More »

A few days ago we heard “I Loved You, Honeybee,” the alternate title track to Father John Misty’s new album I Love You, Honeybear that served as the A-side to his heart-shaped exclusive Record Store Day release. Now, he’s the B-side to that release: a slow, folky ballad called “Never Been A Woman.” Listen below. More »

Record Store Day is tomorrow, and to help boost awareness for the red heart-shaped 7″ from Father John Misty that will be available tomorrow, Sub Pop just released the audio. The alternate version of his latest album’s title track “I Love You, Honeybear” is cleverly re-named as “I Loved You, Honeybee.” It will be backed… More »

If this year’s Coachella had an off day, it was Saturday. Of the festival’s three headliners, Saturday night top draw Jack White is probably the least exciting, though he’s still an electric presence with a deep catalog. The festival’s organizers seemed to sense this, booking White to play second-to-last on the big stage and throwing… More »

Father John Misty has been out on the road promoting his latest record, I Love You, Honeybear, for the past month and will continue to travel the country well into early summer. Photographer Tom Daly caught his set at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club, along with opener King Tuff, whose Black Moon Spell dropped last fall. More »

Record Store Day just announced its list of exclusive releases, and as usual, it includes a lot of noteworthy vinyl pressings as well as a few that you will see and think, “Why the hell would anyone ever think it necessary to own that on vinyl?” For example: the soundtrack to the first four seaso… More »

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Last night, U2 played the seventh night of an eight-night stand at Madison Square Garden. (Our own young classic rocker Ryan Leas reviewed one of those shows earlier in the week.) And at last night’s show, the band introduced a few special local guests. There was New York royalty Paul Simon, who came out to… More »

After reportedly showing up half an hour late, rapper Travi$ Scott got his Lollapalooza set shut down after only 5 minutes by encouraging fans to jump the security barrier and rush the stage. Festival organizers deemed the resulting chaos to be unsafe and shut the whole thing down, with security forcibly removing Scott from the… More »

Morrissey often uses his True To You website to write about cases of what he considers to be societal injustice, as he did in the recent post blasting the killer of Cecil the lion. But as Pitchfork points out, Morrissey’s latest post for the site details a much more personal violation. Morrissey writes that, a… More »

Eminem is a pretty fit dude — for a while, he was even attached to star in Antoine Fuqua’s new boxing movie Southpaw. So how does Eminem stay a pretty fit dude? By working out compulsively. And in a new article on Men’s Journal, the rapper details his compulsive exercise regimen. “In the early days,”… More »

Lollapalooza takes place this weekend in Chicago, and most of the sets from the festival will be livestreaming via Red Bull TV in case you can’t (or don’t want to) leave the comfort of your own home. Some of the acts performing this weekend include Paul McCartney (with a highlights-only set streaming), Metallica, the Weeknd,… More »

Superproducer Mark Ronson stopped by for a live in-studio session at Australian radio station Triple J today. As usual, he assembled a crack team of musicians to back him up, including Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Kirin J. Callinan on guitar. The band performed a great psyched-out cover of Queens Of The Stone Age’s “I… More »

Drake has already released not one but two diss tracks in response to Meek Mill’s ghostwriting allegations. After Funkmaster Flex promised a Meek response track Monday night on Hot 97 and failed to deliver, people were pissed, and everyone began to wonder if this mega-beef were already over. But no — the soap opera continues! More »